The ladies' complete guide to crochet, fancy knitting, and needlework

Chapter 51: EMBROIDERY. [Fig. 7.]

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The manual opens with a brief history of needle arts and proceeds to clear, elementary instruction and a dictionary of technical terms, enabling readers to learn stitches and techniques quickly. It provides step-by-step guidance and patterns across crochet, fancy knitting, tatting, embroidery, Berlin wool and point lace, with designs ranging from simple edgings and collars to intricate doilies, nets, bags, scarves, infant caps, and anti-macassars. Illustrative patterns and explanations cover materials, stitches, insertions, and border treatments, aiming to teach both basic execution and more elaborate decorative motifs for domestic handiwork.

EMBROIDERY.
[Fig. 7.]

SUITABLE FOR THE HALF OF A HANDKERCHIEF CORNER, OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE.

For a handkerchief, I should recommend the fashionable mixture of scarlet and white embroidery cotton, No. 80. The large leaves may be worked merely in outline, being button-hole stitched in one color, whilst the veinings are done in another. The specks on the large leaf are small French knots, which I have described in the “Elementary Instructions,” in this number. The fibres and tendrils are run, and sewed over with the greatest nicety. The broad veinings of the upper and lower leaf would be improved by being very delicately worked in small eyelet-holes, made with a coarse needle rather than a stiletto.